Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-01
FOREIGN TOPICS.
ANOTHER REPORTED ATTEMPT ON
THE CZAR'S LIFE.
BaIfour. the Irish Secretary, Gets a
Scare-Land Bill for Ireland
Cholera Reported at Panama.
SPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE ErcoRD-uS1oN.l
"A GRAVE CRISIS"
The Agitation in England Against the
Governments Coercion Bill.

Governments Coercion Bill.
Record Unions Special Cdblegrdna- Copyrighted
By the Nelo York Tfbane.I
LONDON, March 31st.-The note of the
rapidly-rising agitation in England against
the coercion bill is the same which Will
lam Seward sounded i'll the phrase, The
higher law" Both in Gladstones speech
on Tuesday in the House of Commons,
and in John Morley's yesterday outside, is
discoverable tendency to deny the sane
tity of the law as law. Private concep-
tions of justice are henceforth to be set up
against the judgment of the majority, as
declared by the statute. The spirit is the
same which forces Gladstone to the front
of the party which expresses its dislike
of the proposed measure by obstruction in
Parliament. Gladstone means to sanction
neither illegaiity in Ireland, nor unparlia-
mentary methods in the House, but he
abandons for the time being the ground he
took up when defending his own coercion
measures, and occupies position not un
like that of the Parnellites when they pro-
tested against the first Crimes Act.
Undoubtedly the crisis is, as Morley says,
" a grave one" The Liberal leaders seem
resolved to go to all lengths in promoting
the agitation against Balfour's bill. No
importance need be attached to the frenzied
cries, ITO arms !" which appear in the
Pail Mall Gazette. 1t is the attitude of sane,
,oh &c Of
ley's speech is but the prelude to organized
action.
The Schnadhorst caucus is king. 1t is
setting the machinery in motion, and
meetings are to be held indoors and out.
Demonstrations on a great scale all over
the country are planned. The Irish in the
House of Commons are exulting in the
security they think the Liberal alliance
gives them, and are in all but open revolt
against the authority of the Speaker of the
House itself.
Gladstone was challenged by Goschen to
condemn the action of the National League
in Ireland, in substituting its suthority for
that of the Queen. He condemns outrage,
but points out that the particular outrage
that had outraged the sense of the House
was the cutting off the hair of girl and
pouring tar on her head. 1t was the in
yention and practice of England's soldiery,
who ruled Ireland before the Union.
Morley attacks the provision of the CO.
erciou bill for summary jurisdiction by
discrediting magistrates who are to exer-
else jurisdiction. These novelties in the
political discussion by the Liberal chiefs
are but samples, but they show clearly the
direction things are taking, and the Minis
try have declared they will staad or fall
by coercion. They may drop certain pro-
visions of their bill, but they must stick to
its principle, which is that of governing
Ireland, against the wish of the majority of
the Irish people, be exceptional method
unknown in England.
The Liberals, knowing they are in the
minority in the House, and hopeless of de-
taching in body the Liberal Unionists
from the Ministerial alliance, mean to ap-
peal from Parliamentto to the country They
cannot force a dissolution, and their real
hope is to bring pressure to bear ON mem
bers from constituencies.